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by pmichaud 17y ago
Number 6 is terrible -- hacking together html from strings is just not the right away to do it. He should be generating the DOM elements and appending/nesting the generated elements appropriately, not concatenating a messy string.
842.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Ignorance of the law was no excuse when the laws were roughly the ten commandments, or my personal golden rule, passed down to my sons: Don't be a douchebag. Now, even professional lawyers can't keep up with what is/isn't may be/may not be
843.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Why are you telling us about it? Why don't you be the leader? Let us know what we can do to help you in the plan you've developed to solve the problem.
844.
by pmichaud 17y ago
You need to make time to sit down and do it, whether you're working for Acme or not.
845.
by pmichaud 17y ago
The line weight on "M" stays consistent in Helvetica, but it shits the bed in Arial, getting way thicker at the "V" junction.
846.
by pmichaud 17y ago
You make excellent points, but consider that "upside" isn't entirely measured in dollars, and the situation the OP describes isn't the only possible one. I've done my time at Acme Corp, and it doesn't interest me. I built really great, real
847.
by pmichaud 17y ago
This is rosy if that's what you want to accomplish in your life, but you're ignoring the upside potential. Maybe you just saddled up with the wrong founders?
848.
by pmichaud 17y ago
50% return on investment over 10 years is not a good return. It's only like 5%.
849.
by pmichaud 17y ago
The trend is pretty scary -- if any given normal activity could conceivably be made into a "crime," then you end up with a sort of underclass of people trying to keep prosecutors and police happy because they know that no matter what they d
850.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I also notice patio from my days on the JOS forums, which he also frequents.
851.
by pmichaud 17y ago
The point I think you missed is that people only publish results when they succeed. So, if you look at the entire scientific landscape, let's pretend there is an experiment done where p=.05. The reality is that there is no effect, but in fa
852.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I think the point is that even if you "know" that, you might not "get" it intuitively. This animation is supposed to help you "get" it, and even though it's a bit too fast, I think it does a great job.
853.
by pmichaud 17y ago
He probably doesn't understand your emotional reaction to that dollar amount, because in his world $5k is a token amount, not a real cost.
854.
by pmichaud 17y ago
No, that's just faffing around. The difference is that networking isn't about making friends, it's about making mutually beneficial business relationships. What I'm saying is that it's possible to be genuinely interested in someone's busine
855.
by pmichaud 17y ago
This extends to other areas as well. I was shocked the first time I found an "enterprise" app with an interface for executing arbitrary SQL with full permissions. The shock wears off when you see it over and over. It's nuts.
856.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Really well-written and illustrated example of when it's appropriate to use async messaging or not.
857.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I would have liked to see a couple that could host .net projects.
858.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Having a strategy doesn't mean being fake and uninterested. Anyone who networks with individuals can tell you there's certainly a strategy involved, but to be really good at it you have to also take a genuine interest.
859.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Summary: If "nations" were modular, ocean-going barges, then citizens could freely detach their modules and go live in or start a different nation for very low cost. This would provide competition to government, and therefore force them to
860.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Sorely lacking from this article, even if we take it at face value, is any workable alternative solution.
861.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Why should a game developer get to profit from the resale of the game? That flies in the face of every other after-market. Do the engineers at Ford get a bump every time an old mustang changes hands?
862.
by pmichaud 17y ago
This is part of the reason I'm buying in cash right now. It used to be that it was insane to buy in cash because mortgage rates were way lower than average market gain. Now that's not so much the case.
863.
by pmichaud 17y ago
To determine if you have reactive hypoglycemia you go through something called a 5 hour GTT (Glucose Tolerance Test), which is hell if you really do have the disorder. Essentially you fast after drinking a sugary drinks, and they test your
864.
by pmichaud 17y ago
This isn't my field, but I'm shocked this hasn't been done before. A bunch of computer geeks really took this long to hook up a thermometer to a server?
865.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Many of his symptoms sound just like severe hypoglycemia. My wife has similar, but much less dramatic things happen to her when her blood sugar crashes. Really interesting.
866.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Whether there's a correlation depends entirely on the proportion you find in the general population.
867.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I would rather support that, than most of the code I've actually been asked to support.
868.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Meaning, which is the higher quality font between Arial and Helvetica? Helvetica is the winner. Geometry is much tighter, plus the kerning and hinting is far better, and you have the possibility of using the many faces in the family from ul
869.
by pmichaud 17y ago
That's going to be pretty amazing. Reflector as it is, is a life saver.
870.
by pmichaud 17y ago
It might not be obvious given a few characters, but the overall impact is huge. People who don't know the difference, and can't articulate it, will /still/ know something is wrong, even though they can't put their finger on it.

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